IMPROVE YOUR BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS: Most company's brainstorming sessions are hugely ineffective, a kind of hyper-caffeinated Rube Goldberg machine where the same, usual suspects go through the same tired process of trotting out their pet ideas, jousting with each other, and calling it "ideation." MORE
Brainstorming – 7 Things a Brainstorming Session ISN’T. Brainstorming Is Challenging with these 6 Brainstorming Session Types. Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. MORE
Strategic Thinking Exercises – Identifying Left Field Competitors. Creative Thinking Exercises – Ask a Different Question. Strategic Thinking Exercise – New Product Idea Basics and Extremes in 30 Minutes. Innovation and the Value of Brainstorming. MORE
Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Pursue an Outside-In Innovation Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise – 17 Questions to Find Innovation Case Studies. #5 MORE
There are links in this eBook for 600 of the most powerful brainstorming and extreme creativity questions we use , including ones specifically tailored for innovation and creative boldness! MORE
We use the chart below to drive this brainstorming exercise. While this exercise appears complex at a high-level, all of these questions are critical to answer in order to build towards a final system implementation. MORE
Or you might even just think of the person in your business who is always the first person to come up with a seemingly great idea in a brainstorming session. Often, a small number of highly narcissistic and extroverted people will dominate brainstorming sessions. MORE
If you want people to be optimally creative, it is imperative that you find a way to help them identify their limiting assumptions about the challenge they are brainstorming. questions for brainstorming. That's why "Go for a quantity of ideas" is the first rule of brainstorming. MORE
During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. MORE
Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. MORE
Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. MORE
This is the core creative thinking question for our Shrimp exercise. Both versions of Change Your Character exercises, they free a group’s perspective and energy to imagine how others would tackle daily issues around your organization. MORE
So before your next idea generation session try this exercise. You can refer back to it later as you run the brainstorm sessions. Share : The post Get Better Ideas with this Starter Exercise appeared first on Destination Innovation. MORE
Re-Thinking Innovation Keys for Successful Innovation Projects Just for a moment – let’s try a quick exercise together. There’s a pretty good chance that you picture a group of enthusiastic people gathered together, creatively brainstorming a list of new ideas. Close your eyes, and imagine an innovation project or challenge… What comes to mind? MORE
This time of year, preparing for upcoming strategic planning exercises may seem like something far in the future. As we look ahead to clients’ strategic planning processes, we’re developing new strategic thinking questions to freshen our Brainzooming strategic planning exercises. MORE
When is the right time for brainstorming in strategic planning , or really any other type of planning for that matter? Brainstorming CAN make sense throughout a strategic planning process. The Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning. MORE
For most businesses, every day is an exercise in problem-solving. Can we constrain our brainstorming session to a fixed time frame? From managing your team, to running your office, to actually doing the work that’s paying your bills, even the most repetitive role is likely to involve some degree of decision making. After all – it’s what gets most of us out of bed. That’s because humans are natural innovators. We’re driven to collaborate, challenge and create. MORE
One of the exercises on my Creative Leadership workshop runs like this. Brainstorming and Ideation amazon bezos idea institutional offbeat radical yesPeople in pairs have short conversations. MORE
From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. What questions or exercises can I eliminate to save time while still getting enough input in all the areas we are covering for each innovation strategy? MORE
In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). Brainstorming for technological advancements”. Effective Exercises and Process. Loved the Boom / Bust exercise.”. MORE
Related posts Strategic Thinking Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way 7 Collaborative Strategic Planning Process Impacts (Even if the Plan Sits on the Shelf) Branding Strategy – 3 Ways to Invite Productive Strategy Input Creative Thinking – Who are the best collaborators? MORE
Using structure, exercises, and strategic thinking questions effectively. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head. Structure, Exercises, and Strategic Thinking Questions. Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works. MORE
Extending Brainstorming Ground Rules to Everyday Business Life. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. MORE
Richard Haasnoot continues his series for innovators on how to create 12 X more ideas that brainstorming. Continue reading → MORE
Fast Company Article “Brainstorming is Dumb” Misses the Point. Brainstorming, Done Properly, Is Not a Tool, It’s A Multi-Step Process. And yet another major publication publishes a misleading article about brainstorming — Brainstorming is Dumb. MORE
Start your brainstorming session by playing a game that requires creativity. Get them to exercise (mild) – it could even be just laughter therapy. Ideation and brainstorming is very serious business. Even better is if you can do your brainstorming sessions in an open area. MORE
In the next decade we'll say goodbye to some of the firms who are talking about innovation but aren't exercising the muscles. Innovation capability Long ago, over a decade ago when we started OVO, it was unusual to find people who could run an effective brainstorming activity within most companies. Innovation was rare and brainstorming activities were more likely focused on solving Six Sigma challenges than aligned to creating new products and services. MORE
Creating Strategic Impact – The Brainzooming Group Strategic Planning Toolkit Strategic Planning Exercises – Have you tried a Zoomference yet? When Is the Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning? MORE
Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. MORE
We used to think that CEOs could not stay engaged enough to make an impact on innovation, and we certainly didn't want CEOs sitting in brainstorming exercises. Peter Drucker made the claim that the modern corporation has two real purposes: marketing and innovation. Everything else, he said, are costs. If Drucker was right, what does that say about most executives, who are busy managing costs? MORE
Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. With off-target ideas, we would say, “That’s great,” and suggest other strategic thinking exercises to re-orient them toward a better direction. MORE
This is another article about Quantum Idea Generation a process proven to generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming. Continue reading → Build Capability Cognition Creativity Uncategorized Brain Assessment Brain Exercises brainstorming ideation Quatnum Idea Generation MORE
During several exercises intrapreneurs have to brainstorm on what the future could bring to their organisation. When we run an intrapreneurship program in a large corporate, we aim to push participants out their comfort zone. MORE
We have been working with a client that had done a lot of strategic planning exercises about a new initiative. 6 Ways to Organize Ideas from Strategic Planning Exercises. Do you ever get stuck with a big list of items and struggle to make sense of it all ? MORE
Small groups prepared the personas in advance by brainstorming answers to ten questions on each audience member. Here’s an overview of each of the strategic thinking exercises : 5 Content Marketing Strategy Exercises to Generate Audience-Oriented Topics. MORE
If you want people to be optimally creative, it is imperative that you find a way to help them identify their limiting assumptions about the challenge they are brainstorming. questions for brainstorming. That's why "Go for a quantity of ideas" is the first rule of brainstorming. MORE
If your next brainstorm session was Spring Training for a baseball team, the field would be tilted, people would be wearing mittens, and various inebriated fans would be streaking across the field. How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? MORE
During the creative thinking workshop we facilitated inside an internal management meeting, participants worked through multiple exercises to identify ideas for internal and customer initiatives. Chuck Dymer co-facilitated a client’s internal management meeting with us recently. MORE
How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing. MORE
Prepare, Then Brainstorm. Most brainstorming doesn’t work. The literature bashing brainstorming is extensive. I’m going to focus on one problem with brainstorming in this post: lack of preparation. Plan visual elements, written and kinesthetic exercises. MORE
Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. Innovation becomes more than a few sessions with a flip chart but an actual planned exercise to come up with game changing solutions, not just a few haphazard and interesting ideas. MORE
Traditional methods are more deterministic in that they extrapolate from the past to the present into the future – more like a planning exercise where we believe in certainties. They focus on skill building without having a “landing place” for employees to exercise those skills. If a company brainstorms numerous innovative ideas or approaches, how should they go about prioritizing their development or execution and keeping track of their progress? MORE
This isn’t the right way to brainstorm ideas, attitude and perspective are what are needed. The importance of innovation is increasing each year. Some companies are establishing their internal and external innovation teams, focusing more on developing a culture of innovation. MORE
Destination Innovation
MAY 8, 2017
So before your next idea generation session try this exercise. You can refer back to it later as you run the brainstorm sessions. Share : The post Get Better Ideas with this Starter Exercise appeared first on Destination Innovation.
Gregg Fraley
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Prepare, Then Brainstorm. Most brainstorming doesn’t work. The literature bashing brainstorming is extensive. I’m going to focus on one problem with brainstorming in this post: lack of preparation. Plan visual elements, written and kinesthetic exercises.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 16, 2016
Fast Company Article “Brainstorming is Dumb” Misses the Point. Brainstorming, Done Properly, Is Not a Tool, It’s A Multi-Step Process. And yet another major publication publishes a misleading article about brainstorming — Brainstorming is Dumb.
BrainZooming
AUGUST 28, 2017
How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing.
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise.
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
When is the right time for brainstorming in strategic planning , or really any other type of planning for that matter? Brainstorming CAN make sense throughout a strategic planning process. The Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning.
BrainZooming
APRIL 5, 2016
Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. With off-target ideas, we would say, “That’s great,” and suggest other strategic thinking exercises to re-orient them toward a better direction.
BrainZooming
DECEMBER 9, 2015
From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. What questions or exercises can I eliminate to save time while still getting enough input in all the areas we are covering for each innovation strategy?
BrainZooming
AUGUST 17, 2016
Small groups prepared the personas in advance by brainstorming answers to ten questions on each audience member. Here’s an overview of each of the strategic thinking exercises : 5 Content Marketing Strategy Exercises to Generate Audience-Oriented Topics.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 19, 2016
This is another article about Quantum Idea Generation a process proven to generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming. Continue reading → Build Capability Cognition Creativity Uncategorized Brain Assessment Brain Exercises brainstorming ideation Quatnum Idea Generation
Destination Innovation
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
One of the exercises on my Creative Leadership workshop runs like this. Brainstorming and Ideation amazon bezos idea institutional offbeat radical yesPeople in pairs have short conversations.
Idea Champions
OCTOBER 5, 2017
IMPROVE YOUR BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS: Most company's brainstorming sessions are hugely ineffective, a kind of hyper-caffeinated Rube Goldberg machine where the same, usual suspects go through the same tired process of trotting out their pet ideas, jousting with each other, and calling it "ideation."
BrainZooming
JANUARY 31, 2017
Using structure, exercises, and strategic thinking questions effectively. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head. Structure, Exercises, and Strategic Thinking Questions. Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works.
IdeaHunt
JULY 7, 2017
Re-Thinking Innovation Keys for Successful Innovation Projects Just for a moment – let’s try a quick exercise together. There’s a pretty good chance that you picture a group of enthusiastic people gathered together, creatively brainstorming a list of new ideas. Close your eyes, and imagine an innovation project or challenge… What comes to mind?
Information Playground
OCTOBER 17, 2017
We use the chart below to drive this brainstorming exercise. While this exercise appears complex at a high-level, all of these questions are critical to answer in order to build towards a final system implementation.
BrainZooming
MAY 25, 2017
There are links in this eBook for 600 of the most powerful brainstorming and extreme creativity questions we use , including ones specifically tailored for innovation and creative boldness!
Idea Champions
APRIL 23, 2017
Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall.
Idea Champions
FEBRUARY 10, 2017
Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall.
Board of Innovation
JUNE 16, 2015
During several exercises intrapreneurs have to brainstorm on what the future could bring to their organisation. When we run an intrapreneurship program in a large corporate, we aim to push participants out their comfort zone.
BrainZooming
DECEMBER 10, 2015
Strategic Thinking Exercises – Identifying Left Field Competitors. Creative Thinking Exercises – Ask a Different Question. Strategic Thinking Exercise – New Product Idea Basics and Extremes in 30 Minutes. Innovation and the Value of Brainstorming.
BrainZooming
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
Extending Brainstorming Ground Rules to Everyday Business Life. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.
Idea Champions
AUGUST 29, 2017
If you want people to be optimally creative, it is imperative that you find a way to help them identify their limiting assumptions about the challenge they are brainstorming. questions for brainstorming. That's why "Go for a quantity of ideas" is the first rule of brainstorming.
BrainZooming
JANUARY 15, 2016
Brainstorming – 7 Things a Brainstorming Session ISN’T. Brainstorming Is Challenging with these 6 Brainstorming Session Types. Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head.
BrainZooming
OCTOBER 1, 2015
In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). Brainstorming for technological advancements”. Effective Exercises and Process. Loved the Boom / Bust exercise.”.
Idea Champions
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
If you want people to be optimally creative, it is imperative that you find a way to help them identify their limiting assumptions about the challenge they are brainstorming. questions for brainstorming. That's why "Go for a quantity of ideas" is the first rule of brainstorming.
BrainZooming
APRIL 7, 2017
Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Pursue an Outside-In Innovation Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise – 17 Questions to Find Innovation Case Studies. #5
OVO Innovation
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
In the next decade we'll say goodbye to some of the firms who are talking about innovation but aren't exercising the muscles. Innovation capability Long ago, over a decade ago when we started OVO, it was unusual to find people who could run an effective brainstorming activity within most companies. Innovation was rare and brainstorming activities were more likely focused on solving Six Sigma challenges than aligned to creating new products and services.
Idea to Value
JUNE 16, 2017
Or you might even just think of the person in your business who is always the first person to come up with a seemingly great idea in a brainstorming session. Often, a small number of highly narcissistic and extroverted people will dominate brainstorming sessions.
BrainZooming
JULY 6, 2016
This time of year, preparing for upcoming strategic planning exercises may seem like something far in the future. As we look ahead to clients’ strategic planning processes, we’re developing new strategic thinking questions to freshen our Brainzooming strategic planning exercises.
Idea Champions
JUNE 30, 2016
Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall.
IdeaScale
JUNE 14, 2017
Traditional methods are more deterministic in that they extrapolate from the past to the present into the future – more like a planning exercise where we believe in certainties. They focus on skill building without having a “landing place” for employees to exercise those skills. If a company brainstorms numerous innovative ideas or approaches, how should they go about prioritizing their development or execution and keeping track of their progress?
Game-Changer
JUNE 2, 2016
This isn’t the right way to brainstorm ideas, attitude and perspective are what are needed. The importance of innovation is increasing each year. Some companies are establishing their internal and external innovation teams, focusing more on developing a culture of innovation.
OVO Innovation
JULY 6, 2015
We used to think that CEOs could not stay engaged enough to make an impact on innovation, and we certainly didn't want CEOs sitting in brainstorming exercises. Peter Drucker made the claim that the modern corporation has two real purposes: marketing and innovation. Everything else, he said, are costs. If Drucker was right, what does that say about most executives, who are busy managing costs?
BrainZooming
JUNE 29, 2017
Creating Strategic Impact – The Brainzooming Group Strategic Planning Toolkit Strategic Planning Exercises – Have you tried a Zoomference yet? When Is the Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning?
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 20, 2017
During the creative thinking workshop we facilitated inside an internal management meeting, participants worked through multiple exercises to identify ideas for internal and customer initiatives. Chuck Dymer co-facilitated a client’s internal management meeting with us recently.
BrainZooming
MARCH 14, 2017
This is the core creative thinking question for our Shrimp exercise. Both versions of Change Your Character exercises, they free a group’s perspective and energy to imagine how others would tackle daily issues around your organization.
BrainZooming
MAY 9, 2017
Related posts Strategic Thinking Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way 7 Collaborative Strategic Planning Process Impacts (Even if the Plan Sits on the Shelf) Branding Strategy – 3 Ways to Invite Productive Strategy Input Creative Thinking – Who are the best collaborators?
OVO Innovation
DECEMBER 1, 2015
Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. Innovation becomes more than a few sessions with a flip chart but an actual planned exercise to come up with game changing solutions, not just a few haphazard and interesting ideas.
Idea Drop
JULY 20, 2017
For most businesses, every day is an exercise in problem-solving. Can we constrain our brainstorming session to a fixed time frame? From managing your team, to running your office, to actually doing the work that’s paying your bills, even the most repetitive role is likely to involve some degree of decision making. After all – it’s what gets most of us out of bed. That’s because humans are natural innovators. We’re driven to collaborate, challenge and create.
Idea Champions
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
If your next brainstorm session was Spring Training for a baseball team, the field would be tilted, people would be wearing mittens, and various inebriated fans would be streaking across the field. How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions?
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